Luncheon Data on Risk and Insurance Financing in a World of Decentralized Health Reform

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Mark V. Pauly is Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Systems at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches health care systems, insurance and risk management, and business and public policy at the Wharton School and economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. Pauly is a former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission and a former member of the advisory committee to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Most recently, he was a member of the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel, and he is an active member of the Institute of Medicine. He is coeditor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Pauly’s books include Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-Related Health Insurance, Supplying Vaccine: An Economic Analysis of Critical Issues, and Financing Long Term Care: What Should Be the Government’s Role?